Humanitarian Assistance
Food Security and Armed Conflict
2022
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International Committee of the Red Cross
Millions of people living in areas affected by armed conflict face severe and acute food insecurity – they go days without eating and it is…
Climate Change, Conflict, and Displacement: Five Key Misconceptions
2022
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Humanitarian Policy Group
Caitlin Sturridge and Kerrie Holloway
Many of today’s displacement crises are driven by a complex mix of climate and environmental change, disasters, conflict and fragility. While nuanced debates exist in…
Russian Attacks on Ukrainian Utility Infrastructure: Water and Power
2022
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Small Wars Journal
Brent Stricker
After withdrawing from much of the territory it occupied in Kharkov Oblast, the Russian military has turned to a new strategy of attacking civilian infrastructure, such…
Gender, Climate, and Security in Yemen: The Linkages and Ways Forward
2022
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Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance
Muna Luqman and Nadia Al-Sakkaf
This report presents a summary of discussions with WROs regarding peace processes, gendered climate advocacy in Yemen and the linkages of the climate/security/gender nexus in…
The Uneven Water Stress Implications of Global Refugee Migrations
2022
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Research Square
Leonardo Bertassello, Marc Müller, Adam Wiechman, Gopal Penny, Marta Tuninetti, and Michèle Muller-Itten
Millions displaced by conflicts have found refuge in water-stressed countries, where their perceived effect on water availability has shaped local water security discourses. The authors…
Cascading Climate Risks and Options for Resilience and Adaptation in the Middle East and North Africa
2022
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Chatham House
Glada Lahn and Greg Shapland
This report assesses the current situation and future projections of possible and likely biophysical climate impacts in the MENA region, based on a literature review,…
Honduras Migration: Climate Change, Violence, & Assistance
2021
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Duke Center for International Development
Sarah Bermeo and David Leblang
This study provides insight into the root causes of migration from Honduras, with a particular emphasis on the interconnected role of climate change and violence.…
The Sustainability–Peace Nexus in Crisis Contexts: How the Rohingya Escaped the Ethnic Violence in Myanmar, but are Trapped into Environmental Challenges in Bangladesh
2021
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Sustainability Science
Saleh Ahmed, William P. Simmons, Rashed Chowdhury, and Saleemul Huq
Because of ethnic and cultural violence in Myanmar, approximately a million Rohingya fled to neighboring Bangladesh starting from August 2017, in what the UN has…
The Role of the Environment in Peacebuilding in Yemen
2022
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Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient
Bilkis Zabara and Tobias Zumbragel
This CARPO Report addresses the relationship between violent conflict and environmental governance in Yemen. It translates the concept of environmental peacebuilding to the case of…
A Social-Ecological Systems Perspective on the Impacts of Armed Conflict on Water Resources Management: Case Studies from the Middle East
2022
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Geoforum
Juliane Schillinger, Gül Özerol, and Michiel Heldeweg
Armed conflicts disrupt social, environmental and economic processes. This includes water resources management and the provision of water services, with numerous implications for human security…
The Fourth Wave of Covid-19 Hits Afghanistan
2022
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Afghan Analysts Network
R. Sorush and T. Ruttig
Another wave of Covid-19 struck Afghanistan early in 2022 with doctors throughout the country reporting a rise in cases from January onwards. The devastation suffered…
In Iraq, the Bitter Legacy of War Still Lies Hidden Underground
2021
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Foreign Policy
Jack Losh
Like the neck of a giraffe, a minesweeping vehicle extends a serrated bucket forward and dips its teeth into the blighted earth. It drags the…
Science Diplomacy to Support Environmental Peacebuilding Projects and the Prevention of Local Conflict [Video]
2021
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Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
Philippe Miele, Gilbert Rios, Marc Heran, and Steven Pineda
During this session, we would like to discuss some projects in which science diplomacy provided the basis for successful initiatives that contributed to create a…
Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet, Afghanistan
2022
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Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Afghanistan is highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change: rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and increasingly frequent extreme weather events. Currently, Afghanistan is experiencing…
Housing, Land and Property as War-Financing Commodities: A Typology with Lessons from Darfur, Colombia, and Syria
2022
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Stability: International Journal of Security and Development
Jon Unruh
The ongoing use of landscape-based conflict commodities -- diamonds and other minerals, timber, wildlife, etc. -- to finance wars continues to evolve. The success with…
United We Stand: Reforming the UN to Reduce Climate Risk
2016
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E3G
Camilla Born and Nick Mabey
Since 1945, the risks to international peace and security have also transformed. Today, our international systems are faced with interconnected and increasingly prolonged periods of…
How Theories of Change Can Improve Education Programming and evaluation in Conflict-Affected Contexts
2018
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Comparative Education Review
Christine Monaghan and Elisabeth King
Theories of change (ToCs) are underutilized in programming and evaluation and seldom analyzed with regard to the challenges and opportunities they present, especially in conflict-affected…
Monitoring and Evaluation of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Programs in Humanitarian Settings: A Scoping Review of Terminology and Focus
2018
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Conflict and Health
Jura L. Augustinavicius, Claire Greene, Daniel P. Larken, Wietse A. Tol
Monitoring and evaluation of mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) programs is critical to facilitating learning and providing accountability to stakeholders. As part of an…
Humanitarian Assistance and Peacebuilding
2013
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Integrated Peacebuilding: Innovative Approaches to Transforming Conflict
Mike Jobbins
This chapter explores the integration of humanitarian assistance and peacebuilding in conflict and immediate postconflict settings. It begins with a brief overview of international humanitarian…
Monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding: the role of new media
2013
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Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
Sarah Költzow
This research paper compiles and elaborates on key challenges, opportunities and lessons for the use of new media monitoring and evaluating peacebuilding activities. It draws…
EU Foreign and Security Policy on Climate-Related Security Risks
2019
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Niklas Bremberg
Policymakers and researchers have increasingly acknowledged the adverse effects of climate change on human security, and an increasing amount of international organizations are addressing climate-related…
Climate Change, Conflict, and Displacement: Implications for Protection Agencies
2021
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Overseas Development Institute
Katie Peters, Amanda Gray-Meral, Sarah Opitz-Stapleton, and Hannah Measures
The complex interactions of climate change, conflict and displacement are increasing the challenge of ensuring protection outcomes for at-risk individuals by specialist protection agencies. Systems…
Ecological Threat Report 2021: Understanding Ecological Threats, Resilience, and Peace
2021
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Institute for Economics and Peace
This is the second edition of the Ecological Threat Report (ETR), which analyses 178 independent states and territories. Produced by the Institute for Economics and…
A Hot Dusty Crossroads
2021
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Wilson Center
Peter Schwartzstein
Not so long ago Abu Mohammed al-Ghanem could barely venture from his front door without trampling a neighbor’s crops. To his immediate north, a cousin…
Delivering the Promise of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts (FCAC): A Case Study of the NGO GOAL's Response to the Syria Conflict
2021
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Progress in Disaster
Sonny S. Patel, Bernard McCaul, Gabriela Cáceres, Laura E.R. Peters, Ronak B. Patel, and Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) has helped to reduce global disaster risk, but there has been a lack of progress in disaster…
Afghanistan: Emergency Agriculture and Livelihoods Assistance Packages
2021
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
This factsheet presents a detailed overview of the main emergency agriculture and livelihoods assistance packages that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) provides…
The Intertwined Futures of Climate Action, Fragility, and Peacebuilding
2021
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US Institute of Peace
Anthony Navone
Crises are often described narrowly; clearly differentiated by the aspect of society they impact, such as the economy or national security. But the COVID pandemic…
21st Century Diplomacy: Foreign Policy Is Climate Policy
2020
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adelphi
Alexander Carius, Noah J. Gordon, and Lauren H. Risi
Efforts to mitigate climate change must be firmly ensconced in broader governing bodies and regulatory institutions. The world has set course for a future where…
How Climate Change Deepens Bangladesh’s Fragility: Policymakers Must Recognize that Climate Change Is a Long-Term Problem with Short-Term Effects on Human Rights, Governance and Conflict
2021
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US Institute of Peace
Mubashar Hasan, and Geoffrey Macdonald
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its sixth report on the state of the earth’s climate in early August — and it paints a dire picture. The…
The Reality of Aid Report 2020/2021: Aid in the Context of Conflict, Fragility, and the Climate Emergency
2021
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Reality of Aid
Urantsooj Gumbosuren, Vitalice Meja, Sarah Isabelle Torres, Henry Morales, Nerea Craviotto, Brian Tomlinson, and Mark M. Pascual
The 2020/2021 Reality of Aid Report sets out a narrative in support of a transformative shift in the international aid system taking stock of persisting global crises…